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History right here - a hitherto unreleased/unheard pre Flying Nun document that captures some of the earliest recordings made by Victor Dimisich Band founders and NZ underground legends Stephen Cogle and Peter Stapleton. Captured live one afternoon in early 1981 amidst the youthful glory of shared understandings and a 'crate of beer that needed drinking' (quote: Roy Montgomery), these 13 songs are remarkable in and unto themselves, but further still for how majestically self-realised they are for writers and performers so young and inexperienced. No wonder Cogle and Stapleton would be connected to so much other influential music, the VDB and beyond, their songwriting straight off the bat emotionally rich, raconteur-ish, laced with humour and suddenly profound on the turn of a coin, chord or phrase. For those with an interest in the etymology of early Flying Nun, it's hard to overstate the value of these recordings, detailing how the DNA of the Nuggets garageland and art-bent romance of the Velvets, The Fugs and Syd Barrett were to be bent into new constellations by a group of artists left unwatched. 'Dreams are made, they don't just happen' Cogle sings on 'Shade' - and so it proved to be. Here's the sound of that happening.
FFO: Victor Dimisich Band, Dadamah, Velvet Underground, Syd Barrett, Garbage and the Flowers
